Theme: Home and Place
Gordon Bennett: Notes to Basquiat (Big Shoes)
This unit explores ideas about belonging and is designed to question our relationship and interaction with:
- Others
- Pop culture
- Consumerism
- Cultural beliefs,
- Personal histories
- The natural world
The aim of the exploration is to make and visually interpret personal statements about what home and place means to you and how it shapes personal and cultural identity.
Australian artists Patricia Piccinini, Fiona Hall, Gordon Bennett, and Howard Arkley address some of these ideas from very different perspectives, influences, art forms, aesthetics, materials and techniques. The study of their ideas and studio art practice as well as interpretation and analysis of their artwork aims to provide stimuli for the exploration of ideas, content and techniques for practical explorations.
